Kenneth Grahame Quotes

What makes most people comfortable is some sort of sense of nostalgia. I grew up in a small town, and I could count my friends on one hand, and I still live that way. I think I'll die in a small town. When I can't move my bones around a stage any more, you'll find me living in a place that's spread out and rural and spacious.

I love being home. I have friends that come over.

It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

I live in a Moomin house in East London which I fill with blankets and nice crockery and get people round for dinner. When you travel a lot, you feel rootless and adrift - this is my sanctuary, where I can breathe out.

Oh, to be home again, home again, home again! Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill!

I've got a great family and a beautiful house. I feel very lucky as far as my lifestyle is concerned. I'm not really interested in fame and all its trappings.

I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new.

As long as I'm not living out of a suitcase, I'm happy.

Any old place I can hang my hat is home sweet home to me.

I'm happy in the UK. I absolutely love it and I've finally got a great group of friends. I've got a lovely little flat and my work's here.

Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted... to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home.

I don't want to go anywhere; I don't want to leave anybody behind. Happiness is right here, right now, in this world, in this room. I am happiest wherever it is that I am.

I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave.

I like my life. I like my friends. I don't want to go anywhere else.

To feel at home, stay at home.

I love just being in Canberra and being with my family, being with my friends.

I really like being home. I like being comfortable, and I'm not a very dramatic person.

Personally, I like to be at home, relax, and just be around my friends.

I love being in people's houses.

My favorite spot to hang out is my apartment with my friends.

Home is wherever I hang my hat.

As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness -- just the pure air to breathe and the strength to breath it; just warmth and shelter and home folks; just plain food that gives us strength; the bright sunshine on a cold day; and a cool breeze when the day is warm.

I adore having people over to my home. My number one reason I love that is because I love to see people at ease with each other.

She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway.